OECD economic survey 2000-2001 : Belgium.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belgium--Economic conditions--1945---Periodicals.

Belgium.

Belgium--Economic policy--Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Other Title:

OECD Economic Surveys

Place of Publication:

Paris, France : OECD Publications Services, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 2001 edition of OECD's periodic review of Belgium's economy includes special features on progress in structural reform and encouraging environmentally sustainable growth.

Contents:

""Table of contents""; ""Assessment and recommendations""; ""I. Recent trends and prospects""; ""Overview""; ""A broadly based expansion�""; ""Table 1. Macroeconomic performance at a glance""; ""Figure 1. The business cycle in Belgium and in the euro area""; ""� with improving labour market outcomes�""; ""Table 2. Employment and special labour market programmes""; ""Figure 2. Unemployment rates: an international comparison""; ""Figure 3. Vacancy rates""; ""� and relatively few inflationary tensions""; ""Figure 4. International cost competitiveness""

""Figure 5. Consumer prices""""A comparison of two cycles""; ""Figure 6. Comparison of two business cycles""; ""Short-term prospects""; ""Table 3. Short-term projections""; ""II. Macroeconomic policies""; ""Monetary conditions""; ""Figure 7. Overview of monetary conditions""; ""Budgetary policy""; ""Fiscal consolidation in perspective""; ""Table 4. General government budget""; ""Figure 8. Public finances in Belgium and the European Union""; ""Figure 9. General-government public finances""; ""Table 5. Fiscal consolidation since 1992""

""Box 1. Public finance in the Belgian institutional context""""Table 6. Budget structure""; ""Figure 10. Selected public-expenditure items""; ""Public finance since EMU""; ""The first stability programme""; ""The 1999 Budget""; ""The second stability programme""; ""The 2000 Budget""; ""The multi-annual budgetary programme 2001-05""; ""Table 7. The multi-annual budgetary programme 2001-05""; ""The income tax reform""; ""III. Progress in structural reform""; ""Introduction""; ""Overview of the economic programme of the new government""; ""The labour market""

""Current conditions in the labour market""""Figure 11. Employment rates, 1999""; ""Figure 12. Old unemployed and early retirement programmes""; ""Table 8. Unemployment rates in selected countries, 1999""; ""Figure 13. Incidence of long-term unemployment""; ""Figure 14. Labour market mismatch""; ""Figure 15. Unemployment benefit replacement rates""; ""Figure 16. Average tax wedge on labour, 1999""; ""Figure 17. Tax rates on labour income in Belgium and other OECD countries""; ""Table 9. Employment and non-employment""; ""Wage and labour cost flexibility""

""Employment security provision and work-time flexibility""""Figure 18. Employment protection legislation""; ""Unemployment and related benefit systems""; ""Active labour market policies""; ""Figure 19. Public spending on labour market measures""; ""Product markets""; ""Improving the way product markets operate""; ""Figure 20. Product market regulation""; ""Product market competition""; ""Increasing the openness of specific markets""; ""The creation and diffusion of technological know-how""; ""Financial markets""; ""The banking sector""; ""The stock market""; ""Pension funds""

""Modification of the regulatory framework""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

92-64-19220-4

OCLC:

642661491